Insurers Help In FBI Terrorism Probe
The National Insurance Crime Bureau is aiding the FBIs probe of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States by providing information from vast data banks maintained by member insurers, according to the NICB's president and chief executive officer, Robert Bryant.
The FBI, as part of its investigation into the terrorist network behind the attacks, has put out a list of more than 240 people that the bureau would like to contact and interview, noted Mr. Bryant.
Mr. Bryant said the Palos Hills, Ill.-based NICB is working with the organizations 1,000 member insurance companies “with their data bases to provide information, if we in fact have it.”
The FBI, he said, is looking for information to locate those on its lists, “and we are going to the companies and asking them to check policy information for these names.”
Any information the companies supply is strictly voluntary, he noted. In addition to member companies, the NICB head said that other insurance firms are being approached as well.
If information is developed, he said, the NICBs Strategical and Tactical Information unit will send the data to the FBIs Chicago office.
Besides assisting the FBI investigation in the aftermath of the attacks, Mr. Bryant said that NICB teams are working to identify damaged vehicles at New York's World Trade Center, finding parts and numbers, and indexing them into the Insurance Services Office database to help facilitate claims handling.
“Were identifying a lot of vehicles, mostly from the area around the Trade Center,” he said.
The NICB executive said the organization has also produced an alert for members explaining how to submit suspect claims to the NICB databases.
In addition, he said that the NICB is working to come up with lists of the dead and missing to supply to its disability and life insurance member firms.
“Were trying to get a list with credibility, but there is so much confusion now it is just going to have to wait,” he said.
Reproduced from National Underwriter Property & Casualty/Risk & Benefits Management Edition, October 8, 2001. Copyright 2001 by The National Underwriter Company in the serial publication. All rights reserved.Copyright in this article as an independent work may be held by the author.
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